Monday, 6 February 2012

Note To Self

Welcome to my regular readers, welcome fellow counterfeiters from Helens's blog or the Counterfeit Kit Challenge Blog and of course welcome to anyone else who has stumbled across me in their surfing - take a seat and have a look at what I was up to last week:

Crop Circle's Note To Self is the kit-to-copy over at the CKCB this month (well actually there is a choice of two to copy but I've avoided the pink one LOL). I loved the bright mish mash of patterns, colours and journalling spots in the alternative kit, but where to start with the counterfeiting?

I noticed that there were lots of letters featured on the papers and searched through my stash for colourful examples ... but found only numbers. Ever one to change things up, I grabbed them and started matching other parts of the kit ...

colourful circles √

multi-coloured stripes √

chevrons - I'll make them from the stripes √

semi-circles for borders and patterns - I grabbed some circular punches √

journalling spots in a mix of colours √ plus stamps to make more if required √

lots of words and phrases to embellish with √

tiny alphas in various shades and fonts √

index cards & file tabs - another punch and a Sizzlit die will do the honours here √

felt pompoms - I adapted an on-line tutorial and counterfeited my own √

Mmmm - I'm not entirely convinced that anyone would
mistake the two kits as twins - distant cousins perhaps?!

Various tools to help me counterfeit have been made ready, and I'll be adding some embossing folders to make up for the lack of corrugated card!
There was no mention of cardstock in the kit list, but I can't manage without it for matting, journalling, titles etc so I added some sheets of yellow, green, orange and some new (to me) teal coloured kraft-core cardstock from Core'dinations.

Please come back in a couple of days for my pompom tutorial. In the meantime, do pop over to Jen to see her interpretation of the kits-to-copy!

I love your take on this - you always seem to have stuff I've not seen. I esp like the circle paper and the paper aeroplane one. I've been tempted by the core paper - keen to see what you do and your pom-poms tute too!